Agostino Vallini

His Eminence Agostino Vallini
Vicar General of Rome

Appointed	27 June 2008
Predecessor	Camillo Ruini
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest of San Pier Damiani ai Monti di San Paolo Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran Member of Council for the Economy
Orders
Ordination	19 July 1964 by Vittorio Longo
Consecration	13 May 1989 by Michele Giordano
Created Cardinal	24 March 2006 by Benedict XVI
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	(1940-04-17) April 17, 1940 (age 77) Poli, Lazio, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Previous post	Auxiliary Bishop of Naples (1989–1999) Titular Bishop of Tortibulum (1989–1999) Bishop of Albano (1999–2004) Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (2004–2008)
Motto	sequere me
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Styles of Agostino Vallini

Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal

Agostino Vallini (born 17 April 1940) is an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Since 2008, he serves as Vicar General of Rome, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006. He is also the Archpriest of the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran.

Agostino Vallini was born in Poli, near Rome, but moved with his family to Barra, near Naples, as a child. He studied at the Major Archiepiscopal Seminary of Naples and the Pontifical Theological Seminary of Southern Italy, where he obtained his licentiate in theology. Vallini also attended the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome, earning his doctorate in canon and civil law with a dissertation on the new Code of Canon Law.

He was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Vittorio Longo on 19 July 1964. He then taught canon law at his alma mater, the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy. From 1971 to 1978 he taught ecclesiastical law at the Pontifical Lateran University, while also serving as adviser for the Italian Catholic University Federation, the movement Seguimi, and the Union of Major Religious Superiors of Italy. He later became Rector of the Major Archiepiscopal Seminary of Naples and Regional of Catholic Action. On his return to Naples in 1978 he became rector of the major seminary until 1987, when he took up the post of dean of the S. Tommaso d'Aquino campus, where he had continued to teach.

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